CVE-2017-14993 - Direct Request ('Forced Browsing')

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

OXID eShop Community Edition before 6.0.0 RC3 (development), 4.10.x before 4.10.6 (maintenance), and 4.9.x before 4.9.11 (legacy), Enterprise Edition before 6.0.0 RC3 (development), 5.2.x before 5.2.11 (legacy), and 5.3.x before 5.3.6 (maintenance), and Professional Edition before 6.0.0 RC3 (development), 4.9.x before 4.9.11 (legacy) and 4.10.x before 4.10.6 (maintenance) allow remote attackers to crawl specially crafted URLs (aka "forced browsing") in order to overflow the database of the shop and consequently make it stop working. Prerequisite: the shop allows rendering empty categories to the storefront via an admin option.

OXID eShop Community Edition before 6.0.0 RC3 (development), 4.10.x before 4.10.6 (maintenance), and 4.9.x before 4.9.11 (legacy), Enterprise Edition before 6.0.0 RC3 (development), 5.2.x before 5.2.11 (legacy), and 5.3.x before 5.3.6 (maintenance), and Professional Edition before 6.0.0 RC3 (development), 4.9.x before 4.9.11 (legacy) and 4.10.x before 4.10.6 (maintenance) allow remote attackers to crawl specially crafted URLs (aka "forced browsing") in order to overflow the database of the shop and consequently make it stop working. Prerequisite: the shop allows rendering empty categories to the storefront via an admin option.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Demo Examples

Direct Request ('Forced Browsing')

CWE-425

If forced browsing is possible, an attacker may be able to directly access a sensitive page by entering a URL similar to the following.


               
http://somesite.com/someapplication/admin.jsp

Overview

Type

OXID eSales eshop 6.0.0 Release Candidate 2

First reported 7 years ago

2018-02-20 23:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

OXID eSales eshop 6.0.0 Release Candidate 2 Community Edition

6.0.0

OXID eSales eshop 6.0.0 Release Candidate 2 Enterprise Edition

6.0.0

OXID eSales eshop 6.0.0 Release Candidate 2 Professional Edition

6.0.0

References

https://bugs.oxid-esales.com/view.php?id=6678

Vendor Advisory

https://oxidforge.org/en/security-bulletin-2017-002.html

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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